Instead of buying a normal router for $130 that does everything I need. I decided to browse trademe for 2nd hand stuff trying to get a better deal. Well now I have an old enterprise router with no wireless and a complicated setup and two things which I think are wireless APs but they need PoE so I have to buy a device that has PoE and after that I will have not saved any money and wasted several hours finding, picking up and installing all this stuff. I've also decided to run ethernet through the floor and upgrade my internet plan so I can actually feel the difference.

Massive waste of time and money but I've had fun doing it so its all worth it in the end.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Update: the router worked out of the box and the more I fiddled the worse things became and I eventually bricked the router. It's not responsive on the web port or the recovery SSH. I need a rj45 to USB rollover cable to see what's going on but they are like $45 bucks and I don't want to spend that.

My last resort of troubleshooting is to go to bed and hope it magically works tomorrow.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There might be a factory reset button somewhere on the device. Probably tiny and unlabelled.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty surethats how I broke it. I factory reset it 9 times INA row then the factory reset button stopped working.

[–] FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A reset sometimes needs the button held depressed for a while, 10-30 seconds.

[–] Panq@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tangentially related: we've got an electric sit/stand desk that sometimes needs the controller resetting, but the only way to do so is to unplug it and wait for the capacitors to discharge, which takes at least 12 hours or so. I wonder if I can just add a push button and a resistor... 30 seconds is annoying, but would be a huge upgrade from can't-move-desk-until-tomorrow...

[–] FloofahNZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago

Crickey 12 hours, that’s interesting as residual current would normally be drawn after power removed. Depending on the voltage on the capacitor a resistor would discharge it. Make sure it’s not pulling too much discharge current if you try that.